I would recommend you look into Python. Maybe check out the SciPy project. The style of Python is probably easiest to pick up from a limited programming background and there are some well supported packages for your area of interest.

Soft drink makers engineer diet pop to make you fat. Maybe directly through disrupting your digestion, or indirectly by making you reckless in other food choices. Either way, they want it to make you fat so you buy more diet pop.

I know, I think MPG just doesn't make sense in the world of hybrid and EV. How many MPG does a Tesla Model S get? MPGe is an attempt to come up with a number more comparable to MPG, but I wish we could just shed the "gallon" concept from the measurement entirely. I wish we could get everyone to start talking in terms how much energy it takes to move the vehicle a mile regardless of energy source. kWh/mile I guess would be the right measure. Then you could actually get a sense of the efficiency of that vehicle.

What is the best way to convince your family to let you use a giant sword for common household tasks like carving turkey, taking the top off a pumpkin, cutting the watermelon for 4th of July, etc.? Is a wild beard helpful in that regard?

I noticed the same thing. I think it's the window defrost. If that is not running, you use much less power. If that is running, you use 100%. The only way to stop that seems to be turning the fan down to zero.

I made overnight oatmeal in a crockpot last night and was startled to see this green stuff on top in the morning. From this and other articles, it looks like it can happen from a couple of different causes, but is just color and not harmful. another link